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Annual Report 2014 Key Persons in CEHA Center for Healthy Aging Annual Report 2014 Key persons in CEHA Professor Assoc. Professor Professor Professor Professor Professor Lene Juel Rasmussen Astrid Jespersen Allan Krasnik Erik Lykke Mortensen Martin Lauritzen Ian D. Hickson Managing Director, Theme I Theme I Theme II Theme II Theme III Theme III Assoc. Professor Professor Professor Professor Head of Hocine Mankouri Michael Kjær Vilhelm Bohr Thomas Söderqvist Administration Theme III Theme III Theme III Communication Tina Gottlieb and outreach Center for Healthy Aging is supported by the Danish foundation Nordea-fonden 4 Involving research paves the way for healthy aging 7 Research, communication and outreach 7 Theme I: Community innovation for healthy aging 13 Theme II: Life course aging processes: Lifespan exposures and healthy aging 21 Theme III: Energy balance in humans: What are the mechanisms underlying reduced energy? 27 Selected intervention studies and cross-theme projects 2014 33 Communication and outreach platform 37 International recruitment in 2014 41 In memory of Associate Professor Lene Otto 45 Staff list 51 Internationalization and networking 53 IARU – International research cooperation 53 IARU – International congresses on Aging in Copenhagen 54 IARU – Graduate Student Conference 55 IARU – CEHA Summer School 55 iHAN – International Healthy Aging Network 57 Other international networking and events 59 Selected educational activities 61 PhD dissertations 62 PhD courses 62 Post graduate level 62 Master level 63 Pre graduate level 63 Other dissemination activities 65 Selected joint activities, grants and appointments 66 Joint activities 67 Major grants 68 Appointment 71 Management 73 CEHA Steering Committee 73 International Scientific Advisory Board 74 Internal Advisory Committee 74 CEHA Administration 75 Selected communication and outreach activities 77 Events 79 CEHA on social media 80 CEHA profile magazine 80 Book: The good senior life 80 Press activities Annual Report 2014 · 3 Involving research paves the way for healthy aging The desire to live a long, healthy life is not just part of ship of IARU, an alliance of ten of the strongest research- a speech at a christening party or a major birthday. For intensive universities in the world. In this way, we ensure most people, it is one of the fundamental parameters that our research is strongly anchored internationally. for a happy life. We also now know that it is precisely the combination of ‘long’ and ‘healthy’ that is critical New interdisciplinary themes because healthy aging means that it will not necessarily The results of the research we have achieved and the be accompanied by a large increase in the number of in- experience we have harvested since establishing CEHA firmities even though more and more birthdays pass by. in 2009 have been invaluable, and especially usable. The Healthy aging may be significant for the quality of life interdisciplinary research model is the Center’s hallmark for individuals but it is also a major factor at the com- and justification for its existence. This is why CEHA will munity level because there are indisputable advantages be developing its research model in coming years. A from having a healthy population; the healthier the new grant of a further 26 million USD from the Dan- population, the less pressure there is on welfare ser- ish Nordea-fonden has ensured that we shall be able to vices. Demographic trends with an increasing number of continue researching into a whole range of important elderly in Denmark and internationally have put healthy areas in coming years. aging at the top of national and international politi- Hitherto, work at the Center was split into six research cal agendas. Researching into how the population can columns which worked together on various projects. achieve healthy aging is therefore not just a task but very At CEHA, we are now building further on the experi- much also a necessity. ence harvested using this model and have established In recent years, the Center for Healthy Aging (CEHA) three themes that all incorporate the projects that were has been a significant player, not just nationally but also successful in the Center’s first period. At the same time, in international research into healthy aging. In coming whilst we shall also be launching a series of new projects. years, we shall continue to engage with the interna- tional community, also under the aegis of the EU, such The three themes are: as in the EIT Health KIC (see below for details) in which 1. Community innovation for healthy aging – CEHA research into healthy aging is attracting great attention, researchers investigate the significance of the local and by way of the University of Copenhagen’s member- community and opportunities for promoting the 4 · Annual Report 2014 and cover some important interdisciplinary problems to which we should like to find answers. At the same time, these interdisciplinary themes enable our highly specialized researchers to take entirely different methods of approach and thinking for the benefit of research. Interdisciplinarity means that we use electron micros- copy and a cultural/historical helicopter approach in our research. We are not only interested in how aging occurs at the cellular level but also how psychological and social factors influence the possibilities for a good elderly life. Professor Lene Juel Rasmussen, Managing Director External involvement Our knowledge of a good elderly life is one of the many health and energy of the elderly in the last stage of reasons why we at CEHA will be seeking in coming years life. Much of this work is being done in collaboration to collaborate more with partners outside the University. with three different municipalities. Our researchers It is actually crucial for our research to be not only inter- are also engaged in studying how historical and social disciplinary but also involving, meaning that it interacts changes have influenced relations between people directly with those around us. An outside world that we and between generations. should very much like to get out into because, out of ne- 2. Life course aging processes: Lifespan exposures and cessity, we find we spend too long at a time in our ivory healthy aging – an area in which CEHA’s researchers tower. Much of CEHA’s research is done in dialogue with investigate the different factors that influence aging the people who are directly affected, that is citizens as processes throughout life, how citizens could be moti- well as all the professionals who are working to create a vated into active lifestyles and what happens to cells, good framework for citizens’ healthy aging. Municipali- muscles and the brain as we get older. Researchers ties are one of the natural collaborative partners for our are also carrying out a so-called intervention project research since they have political responsibility for many focusing on physical activity to protect against age- of the areas that affect healthy aging. Over the next five related changes in musculature and the brain. years, CEHA will therefore be participating in a series of 3. Energy balance in humans: What are the mechanisms intervention projects in municipalities, especially under underlying reduced energy? – a theme in which the aegis of the ‘Health promotional innovations ‘. We researchers focus on the body’s inability to repair cel- shall also be doing our utmost to regularly communicate lular damage and the mechanisms that cause the en- our results so that they can be quickly put into practice. ergy in our cells, and hence in our tissue and organs, In this way, we shall be satisfying one of our most to dwindle as we age. important goals: for CEHA’s research to get to work directly together with those it is all about – our citizens At CEHA, we feel that these are three themes in which who should hopefully live long, healthy lives. we can embrace research right from the cellular level via the individual to society and our culture, without doing less for one or the other. The critical factor is that we now have a range of issues that are well interconnected Professor Lene Juel Rasmussen, Managing Director Annual Report 2014 · 5 Theme I Community innovation for healthy aging [Foto: Mand med røde seler – kommer snarest. Alternativt hænder fra iStock] Theme I Community innovation for healthy aging Group leaders goal is to achieve an understanding of the reality of Astrid Jespersen, Associate Professor healthy aging and to understand how healthy aging is Allan Krasnik, Professor promoted among aging citizens. Bjarke Oxlund, Associate Professor Susan Whyte, Professor Background and hypothesis The research in Theme I is guided by four research ques- Theme I is focused on community participation and local tions: practices as the foundation for healthy aging. We ex- 1. What processes contribute to changing cultural ideas amine how differences in local settings and practices, as about health and energy over the life course within well as in socio-economic position affect processes and socially contrasting communities? practices related to aging. Theme I researchers work in 2. In what ways does historical change affect social many disciplines, ranging from ethnology and anthro- relations between and within generations in a specific pology to public health, and work closely together on a society? range of research topics. In other words, Theme I’s aim is 3. How do different actors with diverse initiatives for to understand how the heterogeneity of local communi- healthy aging interact within a municipality? ties influences the promotion of health and energy of 4. With regard to healthy aging, how can relations aging citizens. between local stakeholders be reconfigured at the The research in Theme I is based on the close col- community level to promote energy for aging citizens laborations that we have established within four Danish nearing or in the late stages of the life course? municipalities: Ishøj, København, Vordingborg and Gentofte.
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